Czechoslovakia at the 1968 Winter Olympics

Sporting event delegation

Czechoslovakia at the
1968 Winter Olympics

IOC code| TCH
NOC| Czechoslovak Olympic Committee
in Grenoble
Competitors| 48 (41 men, 7 women) in 8 sports
Flag bearer| Jiří Raška (ski jumping)
Medals
Ranked 12th|

Gold

Silver

Bronze

Total

Winter Olympics appearances (overview)

* 1924
* 1928
* 1932
* 1936
* 1948
* 1952
* 1956
* 1960
* 1964
* 1968
* 1972
* 1976
* 1980
* 1984
* 1988
* 1992

Other related appearances
Czech Republic (1994–)
Slovakia (1994–)

Czechoslovakia competed at the 1968 Winter Olympics in Grenoble, France.

## Medalists

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Medal  | Name  | Sport  | Event

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Gold | Jiří Raška | Ski jumping | Men's normal hill
Silver | Czechoslovakia men's national ice hockey team

* Vladimír Nadrchal
* Vladimír Dzurilla
* Josef Horešovský
* Jan Suchý
* Karel Masopust
* František Pospíšil
* Oldřich Machač
* Jozef Golonka
* Jan Hrbatý
* Václav Nedomanský
* Jan Havel
* Jaroslav Jiřík
* Josef Černý
* František Ševčík
* Petr Hejma
* Jiří Holík
* Jiří Kochta
* Jan Klapáč

| Ice hockey | Men's competition
Silver | Jiří Raška | Ski jumping | Men's large hill
Bronze | Hana Maskova | Figure skating | Women's singles

## Alpine skiing

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Main article: Alpine skiing at the 1968 Winter Olympics

Men
Athlete  | Event  | Race 1  | Race 2  | Total

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Time  | Rank  | Time  | Rank  | Time  | Rank
Jaroslav Janda | Downhill  |  | 2:07.71  | 36
Milan Pažout |  | 2:07.45  | 35
Jaroslav Janda | Giant Slalom  | 1:52.20  | 41  | 1:52.07  | 33  | 3:44.27  | 34
Milan Pažout | 1:48.98  | 29  | 1:51.34  | 29  | 3:40.32  | 27

Men's slalom
Athlete  | Heat 1  | Heat 2  | Final

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Time  | Rank  | Time  | Rank  | Time 1  | Rank  | Time 2  | Rank  | Total  | Rank
Milan Pažout | DSQ  | - | 55.96  | 1 QF | 1:02.29  | 44  | DSQ  | - | DSQ  | -
Jaroslav Janda | 53.20  | 2 QF | - | - | 51.62  | 19  | DSQ  | - | DSQ  | -

Women
Athlete  | Event  | Race 1  | Race 2  | Total

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Time  | Rank  | Time  | Rank  | Time  | Rank
Anna Mohrová | Downhill  |  | 1:50.22  | 33
Anna Mohrová | Giant Slalom  |  | DSQ  | -
Anna Mohrová | Slalom  | 46.23  | 23  | 49.73  | 16  | 1:35.96  | 18

## Biathlon

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Main article: Biathlon at the 1968 Winter Olympics

Men
Event  | Athlete  | Time  | Penalties  | Adjusted time 1 | Rank

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20 km  | Ladislav Žižka | 1'21:45.3  | 14  | 1'35:45.3  | 55
Pavel Ploc | 1'18:05.0  | 5  | 1'23:05.0  | 15

1 One minute added per close miss (a hit in the outer ring), two minutes added per complete miss.

## Cross-country skiing

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Main article: Cross-country skiing at the 1968 Winter Olympics

Men
Event  | Athlete  | Race

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Time  | Rank
15 km  | Václav Peřina | 51:06.6  | 27
Ján Fajstavr | 50:46.5  | 23
Karel Štefl | 50:15.4  | 14
30 km  | Vít Fousek Jr. | DNF  | -
Václav Peřina | 1'40:58.0  | 24
Ján Fajstavr | 1'40:05.1  | 22
Karel Štefl | 1'39:25.7  | 18
50 km  | Václav Peřina | DNF  | -
Vít Fousek Jr. | 2'45:09.8  | 39
Ján Fajstavr | 2'39:25.3  | 28

Men's 4 × 10 km relay
Athletes  | Race

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Time  | Rank
Ján Fajstavr
Vít Fousek Jr.
Václav Peřina
Karel Štefl | 2'19:51.3  | 9

## Figure skating

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Main article: Figure skating at the 1968 Winter Olympics

Men
Athlete  | CF  | FS  | Points  | Places  | Rank

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Marian Filc | 13  | 8  | 1734.2  | 97  | 10
Ondrej Nepela | 5  | 10  | 1772.8  | 73  | 8

Women
Athlete  | CF  | FS  | Points  | Places  | Rank

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Marie Víchová | 20  | 16  | 1580.4  | 187  | 21
Hana Mašková | 4  | 3  | 1828.8  | 31  |

Pairs
Athletes  | SP  | FS  | Points  | Places  | Rank

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Liana Drahová
Peter Bartosiewicz | 11  | 15  | 276.8  | 116  | 12
Bohunka Šrámková
Jan Šrámek | 10  | 10  | 285.8  | 91.5  | 10

## Ice hockey

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Main article: Ice hockey at the 1968 Winter Olympics

### Medal Round

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Rank  | Team  | Pld  | W  | L  | T  | GF  | GA  | Pts

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1 |  Soviet Union | 7 | 6 | 1 | 0 | 48 | 10 | 12
2 |  Czechoslovakia | 7 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 33 | 17 | 11
3 |  Canada | 7 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 28 | 15 | 10
4 |  Sweden | 7 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 23 | 18 | 9
5 |  Finland | 7 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 17 | 23 | 7
6 |  United States | 7 | 2 | 4 | 1 | 23 | 28 | 5
7 |  West Germany | 7 | 1 | 6 | 0 | 13 | 39 | 2
8 |  East Germany | 7 | 0 | 7 | 0 | 13 | 48 | 0

Czechoslovakia –  USA 5:1 (1:1, 2:0, 2:0)
Goalscorers: Suchý, Havel, Jiřík, Hejma, Jiří Holík – Volmar.
Referees: Dahlberg, Wiking (SWE)

Czechoslovakia –  West Germany 5:1 (1:0, 2:0, 2:1)
Goalscorers: Hrbatý, Golonka, Havel, Hejma, Ševčík – Lax.
Referees: Kubinec, McEvoy (CAN)

Czechoslovakia –  Finland 4:3 (0:1, 3:0, 1:2)
Goalscorers: Nedomanský 2, Golonka, Havel – Keinonen, Ketola, Oksanen.
Referees: Wiking (SWE), Snětkov (URS)

Czechoslovakia –  East Germany 10:3 (5:2, 1:0, 4:1)
Goalscorers: Horešovský 4, Nedomanský 2, Jiřík, Suchý, Kochta, Ševčík – Karrenbauer, Novy, Peters.
Referees: Dahlberg (SWE), Sillankorva (FIN)

Czechoslovakia –  Canada 2:3 (0:0, 0:3, 2:0)
Goalscorers: Havel, Nedomanský – Huck, Bourbonnais, Cadieux.
Referees: Trumble (USA), Sillankorva (FIN)

Czechoslovakia –  USSR 5:4 (3:1, 1:1, 1:2)
Goalscorers: Ševčík, Hejma, Havel, Golonka, Jiřík – Majorov 2, Blinov, Populanov.
Referees: Trumble (USA), Dahlberg (SWE)

Czechoslovakia –  Sweden 2:2 (1:1, 1:0, 0:1)
Goalscorers: Golonka, Hrbatý – Bengtsson, Henriksson.
Referees: Trumble (USA), Sillankorva (FIN)

### Leading scorers/Awards

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Rk  | Team  | GP  | G  | A  | Pts

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5th  |  Jozef Golonka | 7 | 4 | 6 | 10
7th  |  Jan Hrbatý | 7 | 2 | 7 | 9
10th  |  Václav Nedomanský | 7 | 5 | 2 | 7

IIHF Award:

Best Defender |  Josef Horešovský

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CZECHOSLOVAKIA
Goaltenders: Vladimír Nadrchal, Vladimír Dzurilla.
Defence: Josef Horešovský, Jan Suchý, Karel Masopust, František Pospíšil, Oldřich Machač.
Forwards: Jozef Golonka, Jan Hrbatý, Václav Nedomanský, Jan Havel, Jaroslav Jiřík, Josef Černý, František Ševčík, Petr Hejma, Jiří Holík, Jiří Kochta, Jan Klapáč.
Coaches: Jaroslav Pitner, Vladimír Kostka.

## Luge

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Main article: Luge at the 1968 Winter Olympics

Men
Athlete  | Run 1  | Run 2  | Run 3  | Total

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Time  | Rank  | Time  | Rank  | Time  | Rank  | Time  | Rank
Roland Urban | 59.20  | 25  | 59.59  | 26  | 1:00.24  | 31  | 2:59.03  | 27
František Halíř | 59.07  | 23  | 59.10  | 18  | 58.93  | 19  | 2:57.10  | 20
Horst Urban | 58.93  | 19  | 59.54  | 25  | 59.91  | 27  | 2:58.38  | 24
Jan Hamřík | 58.43  | 15  | 58.56  | 11  | 59.07  | 21  | 2:56.06  | 15

(Men's) Doubles

Athletes  | Run 1  | Run 2  | Total

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Time  | Rank  | Time  | Rank  | Time  | Rank
Horst Urban
Roland Urban | 50.46  | 12  | 50.02  | 12  | 1:40.48  | 12
Jan Hamřík
František Halíř | 51.85  | 14  | 50.85  | 14  | 1:42.10  | 14

Women
Athlete  | Run 1  | Run 2  | Run 3  | Total

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Time  | Rank  | Time  | Rank  | Time  | Rank  | Time  | Rank
Olina Tylová-Hatlová | 50.16  | 11  | 50.35  | 9  | 51.14  | 10  | 2:31.65  | 11
Dana Spálenská-Beldová | 49.22  | 3  | 50.36  | 10  | 50.77  | 9  | 2:30.35  | 6

## Nordic combined

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Main article: Nordic combined at the 1968 Winter Olympics

Events:

* normal hill ski jumping (Three jumps, best two counted and shown here.)
* 15 km cross-country skiing

Athlete  | Event  | Ski Jumping  | Cross-country  | Total

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Distance 1  | Distance 2  | Points  | Rank  | Time  | Points  | Rank  | Points  | Rank
Tomáš Kučera | Individual  | 72.0  | 73.0  | 217.4  | 9  | 50:07.7  | 216.74  | 6  | 434.14  | 4
Ladislav Rygl | 71.0  | 71.5  | 200.4  | 18  | 50:55.5  | 206.88  | 14  | 407.28  | 16

## Ski jumping

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Main article: Ski jumping at the 1968 Winter Olympics

Athlete  | Event  | Jump 1  | Jump 2  | Total

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Distance  | Points  | Distance  | Points  | Points  | Rank
Zbyněk Hubač | Normal hill  | 74.0  | 101.7  | 73.5  | 101.9  | 203.6  | 19
František Rydval | 76.0  | 106.4  | 73.5  | 100.4  | 206.8  | 12
Ladislav Divila | 76.5  | 107.2  | 73.0  | 100.1  | 207.3  | 9
Jiří Raška | 79.0  | 115.2  | 72.5  | 101.3  | 216.5  |
František Rydval | Large hill  | 92.0  | 95.2  | 88.0  | 89.6  | 184.8  | 27
Zbyněk Hubač | 95.0  | 101.4  | 87.0  | 87.2  | 188.6  | 25
Rudolf Höhnl | 98.5  | 107.3  | 91.5  | 95.5  | 202.8  | 12
Jiří Raška | 101.0  | 116.3  | 98.0  | 113.1  | 229.4  |

## References

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* Official Olympic Reports
* International Olympic Committee results database
* Olympic Winter Games 1968, full results by sports-reference.com

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